In a way, you’re not wrong. If someone kept a lot of paper cash at home, they’d be a target too.

However, most people don’t have large amounts of cash sitting around their house. They keep it in banks or investment accounts. With money in those accounts, it’s harder for criminals to steal it because there’s a paper trail that makes it easier to catch them.

So, for ordinary people, owning crypto is more dangerous than having their money in a traditional account.